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| author | Andrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com> | 2018-11-07 17:59:45 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2018-11-07 17:59:45 (GMT) |
| commit | c5eec4426d9144b2255500217d0e3ff9463d2770 (patch) | |
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Add a reference to the name mangling description in the tutorial to the index. (GH-10138)
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 7d3b823..edbc43f 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -672,6 +672,9 @@ be treated as a non-public part of the API (whether it is a function, a method or a data member). It should be considered an implementation detail and subject to change without notice. +.. index:: + pair: name; mangling + Since there is a valid use-case for class-private members (namely to avoid name clashes of names with names defined by subclasses), there is limited support for such a mechanism, called :dfn:`name mangling`. Any identifier of the form |